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ancient and medieval europeans went through some shit
And the only thing that tastes good is the seeds. SMH
scientific name
uppercase species
not even underlined or italicized
This is news to me, but I was always kind of onto cauliflower just being albino broccoli, so not too surprised there.
We eat like 2 plants. One is brassica mentioned above.
The other one is nightshade. In the nightshade family we find tomatos, aubergine, tobacco, peppers, physalis, potatoes and of course the extremely toxic bella-donna (deadly nightshade)
Doesn’t sound like a complete diet
“like” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
to make the list a bit more complete there’s also the rose plants (rosebuds, apples, plums, basically all the nice sweet fruits growing on trees and bushes), legumes, and of course grasses (basically all the grains are some form of grass seeds)
Just a small correction: you missed an “a” in bella-donna (bella donna means “beautiful woman” in Italian)
I very much did!
Wait… it’s all mustard?
🔫🌼 Always has been.
cabbage, to be more accurate
Always has been.
How? Like… literally how?
I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.
Or is this like “all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable”, kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.
Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it’s 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.
kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.
This is what happened
No, it’s cooler than that! All these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus
Citron broke my brain. If you’re telling me this is mustard and only mustard, my brain might just die in confusion.
Its exactly like that.
Artificial selection!
If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.
My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.
Always a relevant xkcd, isn’t there
Damn these healthy GMOs!
Weird how mustard (the condiment) tastes so good yet the cultivars of this particular species all taste horrible to me.
i mean mustard (the condiment) is basically just a flavourful sugary starch paste, anything tastes good with 15 grams of sugar.
It’s also a completely different part of the plant, it’s like going “man i like apples but the seeds taste horrible! how odd”The mustard you’re eating seems to be quite different from mine. Mine has a whopping 2.6 grams of carbohydrates per 100g, some of the brassica vegetables probably have more than that.
uhhh, condiment mustard is made of mustard seed, not sure how you imagined it working otherwise?
and seeds are kinda by definition starchy, they need starch to store energy for the plant to sprout through the soil.
Actually, the mustard in my fridge contains more fat and protein than starch or sugar. And that’s actually very common for seeds, many of them contain more than 50% fat.
And y’know, the essential oils kind of dominate the taste. It’s not peanut butter FFS.
Made from a completely different species.
Sinapsis alba regular mustard.
Brassica juncea spicy mustard
lol and I think they all taste bad.
Y’all are wildin’. These are all my favorite vegetables.
mustard on the beat, yo
Wow, 7 bad flavors out of one plant. What a record
They’re delicious if cooked properly. I’m a lazy bastard and just microwave steam my cauliflower and broccoli though.
how much bacon fat is required to turn it delicious
Literally none.
Animals turn into crab, plant turn outfrom cabbage
Wait, but I put mustard on my broccoli…
High key
Yo dawg, I heard you like mustard…
Triangle of U is best triangle.
this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is misleading: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is not typically called “wild mustard plant”.
edit: toned down my refutation; i guess maybe it is sometimes 👀 but i think not really
Tagged & linked comment. :)
I have an opinion on all of these foods!
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